THE ATOM: New Flame for a Feud

In the bogdown of the U.S.-U.K.-U.S.S.R.
disarmament talks at Geneva, the U.S.'s smoldering debate about
stopping nuclear testsmore or less tamped down by the President's
decision last August to stop tests for one yearfanned into new flame.
The Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon, convinced that prolonged
test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture,
argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of
full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science
Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter
counterattack.

"Radicals." A top Science Advisory Committee member, declining to be
named, insisted...